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The Search for Planetary Mass Companions to Field Brown Dwarfs with HST/NICMOS

  • Authors: M. B. Stumpf, W. Brandner, V. Joergens, Th. Henning, H. Bouy, R. Köhler, and M. Kasper

STUMPF et al. 2010 The Astrophysical Journal 724 1.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Comparison of achieved detection limits for companion masses at ages of 1 Gyr (left image) and 0.5 Gyr (right image). The derived contrast limits of each observing run were converted into masses based on the evolutionary models from Baraffe et al. (2003) as described in the text. The images display the mean detectable mass limit with the shaded areas representing the standard deviation.

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